FQMS GT Research

The G/T Research class is an elective course offered to sixth grade students who participate in both G/T English and G/T Mathematics. Participating students receive instruction in advanced-level research skills that can be applied in their G/T Content classes. The research class provides a curricular framework for students to become producers of new knowledge as they apply research skills modeled in the curriculum to an original investigation in a self-selected area of study. Students will learn how to conduct both primary and secondary research in an effort to address a particular topic and research question.

The major content of this course includes:

• identifying the purposes for conducting research

• distinguishing between primary and secondary research

• building a knowledge of the primary and secondary research processes

• exploring and applying the various types of primary research designs

• analyzing and presenting research findings.